The first tendrils of light from the impending dawn were already making their way through the cracks in the heavy curtains when Amber rubbed her eyes and put the book down.
"I've got to stop staying up so late." she thought wryly but it was a thought she had often and more often ignored. Ambers mind burned with the need to KNOW and while she was very young for one of her race, she had already become quite adept at finding answers, in books or elsewhere.
“About time you paid attention to something else other than those moldy old booksâ€